Dynamic Data Linking ⇝

Dynamic Data Exchange

(DDE, originally Dynamic Data Linking, DDL) A
Microsoft Windows 3 hotlinkprotocol that allows
application programs to communicate using a client-server
model. Whenever the server (or "publisher") modifies part of
a document which is being shared via DDE, one or more clients
("subscribers") are informed and include the modification in
the copy of the data on which they are working.